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Anomia; Or, Liberalism and Its Napoleonic Messiah. by Dionysius
Anomia Or Liberalism and Its Napoleonic Messiah by Dionysius Author:Thomas Dennis Rock General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Paet II. THE ANTICHRISTIAN SYSTEM IN ITS FIRST DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE SEVENTH AND SHORTLIVED HEAD OF THE APOCALYPTIC WILD BEAST. "The Beast that was and is not." -- Rev. xvii. 8,11. " The Beast which had the wound by a sword." -- Rev. xiii. 15. Having gathered from the inspired Scripture many clear and unmistakeable predictions of an universal apostacy in the end of time, I feel justified in looking closely at the page of history, so as, if possible, to identify that foretold empire of atheism or lawlessness, and I find, alas ! the substance of these prophetic shadows only too readily, and their lawless features legibly impressed on the predominating principles of our own immediate and most recent epoch. Towards the latter part of the eighteenth century several eminent and notorious characters in France and Germany banded themselves together for the avowed purpose of revolutionising the world, and the building up of a political fabric in. bold defiance of Jehovah and His laws; and Sir Walter Scott, in his Life of Bonaparte (Vol. II. p. 305), marks this terrible conspiracy as without any parallel in the history of man. " The world, for the first time, heard an assembly of men, born and educated in civilisation, and assuming the right to govern one of the finest of the European nations, uplift their united voice to deny the most solemn truth which man's soul receives, and renounce unanimously the belief and worship of a Deity." The system which these revolutionists sought to establish in Europe and the world at large, I find to correspond in everyparticular with the statements of Divine truth concern...« less